Flower Picture

Since I'm posting pictures here, I may as well update you on those GREAT flowers that we made. I "helped" Pickles with hers (the red & blue ones) and Superkid did his all on his own. His second one he decided looked better before pulling the tissue apart, so he just left it like that.



Now, mind you - these cute little flowers have been through A LOT. The kids really liked standing on the chair and letting them drop to the ground. Of course in the middle of this fun, the flowers got stepped on quite a few times. And, considering Pickles kept picking them up for Superkid each time, they got just a little squished. So, without further adu...



Our Mexican Flowers!

Mexico Wrap-up

My son was in a silly mood when we did this as you will see...

ECC - MFW
Week 5 & 6 (Mexico)

What have you learned?
I learned about different things from Mexico. Like how they live. And I learned a couple words that they speak. I also learned how to make a pinata, but we haven't done that yet. We made paper flowers. Now I know a couple states from Mexico like Durango, Tabasco and Mexico City. I learned a lot about Cuba and the Caribbean Islands.

In science I learned about how animals live the deserts and how hunters catch food. The rabbits have lots of blood vessels in their ears so that more air gets let out from them. Animals bury themselves underground to keep cool.

The kangaroo rat lives in sandy areas. They go to eat in the night time. The foxes come and try to eat the kangaroo rats. But, the kangaroo rats jump up and kick sand in the foxes face, so the kangaroo rats have time to run away.

The trapdoor spider has a door that it puts in the sand, whenever something little enough that the spider can eat comes, it opens the door and takes it into it's "house" basically and eats it.

Rattlesnakes wait quietly in a bush to eat. Finally a kind of rat comes by which he likes to eat, so he jumps out at the rat. So the snake sprays his venom out from his fangs at the rat. Still the rat runs away, but dies fast. Finally the snake catches the dead rat.

What are some favorite things you did?
My favorite thing I did was making the paper flowers. That was like the BEST BEST BEST of all!!! That's how much I liked it. I can't think of anything else better than that. I also liked to learn the language of Mexico. Do you know how Mexico City was made? Well, at first there was just water in Mexico City; it was a lake. Then people came and put sand on all Mexico City and then made it Mexico city. (That was a little short story. And there you go for that. Bye Bye!)

What picture did I pick for this?? Betcha can't guess...

Him and his paper flowers!!! Of course!

(My camera is going nutso right now or I'd give you a picture of the flowers. Sorry!)

Finding our groove.

These past few weeks instead of following the days perfectly I've looked at the week as a whole. I've found that we've sort of grouped things together so one day he's working almost entirely on just math and english, then another day we'll do all the science, etc. WE ARE LOVING IT! For some reason it doesn't seem to drag things out as much. Although I don't like the idea of doing all the Bible at the same time, it has been working just fine. By the end of the week everything is checked off and we weren't stressed each day to switch gears every half hour.

Here's a photo of our experiment we did today:
























My Superman brought this home for me yesterday. Isn't it beautiful?? We did it hours ago, I just checked & no drops yet. Maybe a rose leaf wasn't the best choice?

So, where are we now?

All we have left to work on is this all the fun stuff!!

~We still have to make the North America game. I wish I had some sort of geography game already that I could use in place of this each time. I'm thinking about buying Carmen San Diego or something like that. Actually as soon as I'm done here I'll do a search to see what free games I might be able to find online.

~Projects: Superman promised to do the pinata with him, because that just seemed like too big of a project for me. So I assume that will happen sometime maybe this weekend. We need to pickup some tissue paper for the flowers and Superkid picked the "tin" art for this week which I also need to pick up supplies for at the store. (pinata was last week.)

~We have four chapters left until our read aloud is completely done. We have really enjoyed that!

~I'll have him do his "wrap-ups" of all he learned. (from his read aloud and his Mexico trip.)


Then....




It's time for our FIESTA!!!!!

Flag colored by Superkid:





















Flag colored by Pickles.

Overwhelmed

I'm just assuming that this week we will not accomplish much. Between a new job for my husband that has me a bit bonkers, a few doctor's appointments, homeschool meeting on Friday and the "fish guy" at my parents today - my mind is preoccupied.

So, he'll be working on math, I'll squeeze in english and whatever else I can in between my insanity. We'll plan to spend another extra week here in Mexico (We just can't get out - it's all the tequila I'm telling you. JUST KIDDING! Really. I mean I'm really really joking here.)